Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

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Der weiße Teufel said:
Fun fact, both movies had the same producer, I think she just REALLY liked the whole wormhole idea. At least Interstellar had no aliens? Anyway, a lot of people find the movie too long, boring, or overly sentimental and dramatic etc. A friend of mine found the Murphy Eureka scene particularly cringe.
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Every big mainstream movie that year was cringe and scripted by high school boys. Interstellar, The Martian, Birdman, Whiplash, Selma, even the fairly bearable Wes Anderson movie. But especially The Martian. Crimson Peak is a fucking 10/10 film adaptation of a Victorian thriller and got panned because that year was the year of tard scripts. Dialogue became worse than high school drama club modernizations of Romeo and Juliet and never completely recovered.
I used to nap in the back row of a single-screen cinema my friend owned (he had beer) and saw pretty much everything that came out 2014-2017 on a loop any time I went in there.
 
NYT has an op-ed that suggests HP is not as popular among Gen-Z. I cannot archive it.

MovieBob speculates why.
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From that NYT article: "Ms. Rowling foregrounds ideology in her books, and that means that her novels feel dated in a way that others do not."

I guarantee this writer has not read the Narnia series (mentioned in the previous paragraph) since she herself was a kid.

Every book is of its time in some way.
 
Positron said:
NYT has an op-ed that suggests HP is not as popular among Gen-Z. I cannot archive it.

MovieBob speculates why.
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I saw it under a different headline:

NYT: The Harry Potter Generation Needs to Grow Up (archive)
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It’s not just that antisemitism is resurgent among both anti-Zionist activists on the left and the “groypers” on the right (although it is).
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Even non-groypers resent the way that the words “fascist” and “Nazi” have been deployed for years against the most milquetoast figures, and exposure to institutional progressivism in schools and universities has provoked an almighty backlash.
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Groypers mentioned.
Even before Ms. Rowling weighed in on the debate on trans rights, part of the young left had already condemned her as problematic across multiple fronts: for alleged tokenization of ethnic minority characters, for her portrayal of slavery and for tropes that some read as antisemitic.
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Is this revisionist history? I'm sure there were some fart-sniffing academic papers about this, like the countless gender studies essays written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but the criticism was turbocharged after she spouted badthink.

The article is not Rowling derangement, it's an indictment of Zoomers of all stripes becoming illiberal, and thus out-of-touch with what Rowling has had to offer. Louise Perry is described as a "reactionary feminist" on Wikipedia. RDS sufferers who actually read the article will probably not be happy with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Perry (archive)
https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/ (archive)
https://muckrack.com/louise-perry/articles (archive)
 
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here's the top-5 kids book series over the last 5 years according to ChatGPT:

Here’s the top 5 best-selling children’s book series in the U.S. over roughly the last 5 years (2021–2025), using Circana BookScan print-unit sales as reflected in Publishers Weekly’s annual “Facts & Figures” bestseller roundups. Important caveat: Circana doesn’t publish a single free “5-year cumulative by series” table, so this is a best-available ranking based on which series repeatedly generate the biggest annual top-sellers and dominate the charts.

Top 5 series (U.S., print, 2021–2025)

  1. Dog Man (Dav Pilkey)

    Consistently the #1 kids juggernaut across the period: Dog Man #10 led 2021 with ~1.30M copies , Dog Man #11 led 2023 with ~1.09M , and Dog Man #12 led 2024 with ~1.27M . It was also #1 nationally in a major holiday-week snapshot in Dec 2025 .
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)

    The most consistent #2 (and sometimes #1): Wimpy Kid #16 sold ~985K in 2021 ; Wimpy Kid #17 led 2022 at ~830K ; Wimpy Kid #18 hit ~715K in 2023 ; Wimpy Kid #19 did ~765K in 2024 ; and the newest volume was #2 nationally in Dec 2025 .
  3. Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)

    Even decades in, it still posts blockbuster U.S. print numbers in kids categories: Order of the Phoenix (illustrated) sold ~410K in 2022 , and Christmas at Hogwarts sold ~252K in 2024 . (PW also notes the franchise “continues to rank high.”)
  4. Cat Kid Comic Club (Dav Pilkey)

    The biggest “next tier” series by repeated top-chart appearances: Cat Kid #2 sold ~424K in 2021 , Cat Kid #3 sold ~623K in 2022 , and Cat Kid #5 moved ~279K in 2023 .
  5. Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland)

    Strong across both novels and graphic adaptations: the novel Wings of Fire #14 sold ~185K in 2021 and the graphic novel #15 sold ~234K in 2022 —and the series continues to show up prominently in annual kids bestseller data.
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We are 30 years in here and it's still a bestselling mainstay. We're gonna hyperventilate over not staying at #1 literally forever? I know in the modern media landscape it's hard to believe this...but kids should be permitted to have original media products too! Seriously!

The best selling pop album in 1997 when the first book came out was Spice by the Spice Girls. Can you believe it isn't still #1 in 2026? They must be humiliated. You know what this is cause of? Their politics. I can't think of any other possible reason besides their politics.
 
Positron said:
NYT has an op-ed that suggests HP is not as popular among Gen-Z. I cannot archive it.
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This is a very US focused article because having lived in southeast Asia for a while i can absolutely tell you HP is still a massive big deal, particularly with young girls.

Wonderland foster child said:
From that NYT article: "Ms. Rowling foregrounds ideology in her books, and that means that her novels feel dated in a way that others do not."
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Im still not convinced that kids (or in fact anyone who is not actively in academia ) gives two shits about the meta textual reading of whatever fandom they happen to be into. Kids arbitrarily cling on to stuff, often times because it's different, only to be told that the popularity of Bionicle among young males reflects a crisis in western masculinity and society's deep-seated avoidance of black erasure. 🤮

Last year there was an article in Vanity Fair about Gen Z girls LARPing as Victorians with puffy dresses and no one pretended it was anything but a bit of fun, or claimed that you can track the decline of classical Liberalism basedon the length of womens's hems.

The sign here is you loosing an election. there is no need to read the tea leaves.
 
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My mother is a part time primary school teacher. Not long ago I asked if her, if Harry Potter is still popular with the kids that she teaches.

Her answer was simply yes.
Autistic Nonetheless said:
This is a very US focused article because having lived in southeast Asia for a while i can absolutely tell you HP is still a massive big deal, particularly with young girls.
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It's massive in Japan and Korea as well.

A co-worker of mine was shocked at how crowded the Harry Potter world was in Universal Studios Japan. When she visited it with her kids last year.
 
Positron said:
NYT has an op-ed that suggests HP is not as popular among Gen-Z. I cannot archive it.
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It is now merely as relevant as some of the greatest childrens' works in modern history, rather than being the obsessive, identity-defining cult that late millennials and gen Y made it.
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Is this revisionist history? I'm sure there were some fart-sniffing academic papers about this, like the countless gender studies essays written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but the criticism was turbocharged after she spouted badthink.
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Nope. Tumblr (because it was always tumblr) had formed the "bigot rowling" narrative by around 2014, or possibly as early as 2012, and it was already emerging into the mainstream before the first Trump presidency. It was initially kicked off by American 20-somethings, who can't help but see everything through the lens of American racial conflict, and so who analogised house elves to african chattel slaves and treated their desire to remain "enslaved" as an uncle tom motif. Then they decided that the existence of in-universe slurs meant that Rowling was secretly a bigot herself. Then the lack of "representation" was added on, from which the black hermione and indian harry movements movements emerged. And I'm very deliberately calling these things movements, because they weren't merely personal preferences. They became the required fanon, divergence from which branded you as a hateful bigot in the right-on circles, and were spread through aggressive evangelistic outreach of the sort that would make an angry street preacher think twice.

Then they concluded that the goblins were anti-semitic, entirely because the movie versions had ugly faces and used the Australian High commission building as the set for the bank, in a scene which prominently featured this rather fancy floor:

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It was a done deal at that point. Rowling was terribad nogood awful, and they were just waiting for an excuse to eject her entirely and collectivise the books, in some pathetic re-enactment of revolutionary France beheading its king.
 
I have never paid attention to Tumblr but in the UK a big turning point for her public image was her stance against Jeremy Corbyn, the far-left politician who became Labour leader in 2015 and resigned in 2019 after his 2nd general election defeat. She spoke out against the antisemitism of his supporters, and more generally the contrast between Corbyn's promise of "kinder. gentler politics" (his actual quote) and the sewer-fight attitude of his supporters and this is when the character assassinations and the twisted readings of HP became ubiquitous. It was all over Twitter whenever she spoke up: the Goblins, the House Elves, and the more desperate search for racism about the depictions of characters like Cho Chang, Seamus Finnigan etc.. etc...

When she antagonised TRAs, they simply picked up the baton and the slurs.
 
Interestingly enough, I know a Gen Z college-aged girl who is absolutely obsessed with HP and just had an HP-themed birthday party. She was raised by fundamentalist Christian parents who suffered from the “witchcraft author bad” variant of RDS, yet that didn’t stop her from discovering the books and enjoying them.

Anyway. Retards in the HP fandom have been deranged about Rowling for decades, just that in the past it was usually over shipping (she sucks at writing because Harry didn’t get with Hermione, she’s homophobic for not making Remus/Sirius canon, etc).

However, I recall a large negative shift in the discourse around the time of the first Trump administration. Lefties were starting a moral panic about “literal Nazis”, and since the bad guys in Harry Potter are metaphorical wizard nazis, they began chimping out over Rowling portraying Snape as complex and somewhat redeemable. Media that might hint at tolerance for anyone associated with Trump voters “Nazis” was seen as dangerous propaganda.

It’s the same culture war bullshit that made Adam Driver’s character in the Star Wars prequels needlessly controversial—he’s some kind of space nazi, so it’s problematic if Mary Sue doesn’t punch him and date the token black guy instead never mind that the black guy was working for the equivalent of the Space SS.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Then the lack of "representation" was added on, from which the black hermione and indian harry movements movements emerged. And I'm very deliberately calling these things movements, because they weren't merely personal preferences.
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I always wondered where the "Indian Harry" fan on came from (Black Hermione was explained to me as coming from people interpreting Hermione's frizzy hair as "ethnic", which as a white with curly, frizzy hair, confused me, but I figured let people enjoy what they want).
 
Positron said:
NYT has an op-ed that suggests HP is not as popular among Gen-Z. I cannot archive it.

MovieBob speculates why.
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Moviebob once again showing his full ass and how much of an unfunny retard he is.

Also, Zoomers might be too stupid to like Harry Potter and zoomer stare over it because anything earnest and genuine is considered 'dumb' but the gen after them? All those kids play Harry Potter on the playground and I've seen it. All of us old Millenials passed the love of HP to our kids and it's going strong. I went to a lovely outdoor viewing of the first film at a castle last summer and it was full of people my age and our kids. All dressed up, all having wands and saying iconic lines. It was wholesome and touching and I'm glad I got to experience it with them and build key moments for my children. They got to see HP at a real life castle.

Stay childless and mad Trannies. (I've ensured my future grandchildren will be never be Hufflepuffs.)

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Then they concluded that the goblins were anti-semitic, entirely because the movie versions had ugly faces and used the Australian High commission building as the set for the bank, in a scene which prominently featured this rather fancy floor
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No shadow of a lie I had someone crash out over ROWLING IS ANTISEMITIC REEEE and literally the only piece of evidence was that flooring and 'goblins run the bank and have big noses'. My guy, if you look at goblins (an imaginary creature) and see yourself in that then Idk what to tell you. Nobody called them schlomo gobbojew or shit. They had British accents. They weren't Fiddlering on the Roof Tevyah and some shit. Literally just goblins the same as every other goblin in fantasy.

And when it was pointed out that 'that's just a real building with that flooring and it was doubtful Rowling had much say in production design of it', it supposedly 'didn't matter because it was still antisemitic'.

He crashed out, cut ties with our TTRPG group. No loss there. Dude was a retard and probably trooned out by now. He seemed the type and had a massive boner over lesbian pairings. (Which, major red flag)
 
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krautkid said:
He crashed out, cut ties with our TTRPG group. No loss there. Dude was a retard and probably trooned out by now. He seemed the type and had a massive boner over lesbian pairings. (Which, major red flag)
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I know that the jokes about what the current culture wars have done to rpg groups is incredibly justified by reality but it still tickles me to this day.

Not only are many tabletop games out there now afflicted with people whose character's sex lives are somehow of vital importance the amount of lesbians out there seems through the roof. And almost always played either by men or "women."

It's as nauseating as all the articles from sources like Kotaku, Polygon etc. that whine about queer baiting or salivate over female pairings. Thirty years ago these degenerates going, "girl on girl is hot" would have been treated like the perverts they are, not paid to talk about their fetishes.
 
S@credC said:
I always wondered where the "Indian Harry" fan on came from (Black Hermione was explained to me as coming from people interpreting Hermione's frizzy hair as "ethnic", which as a white with curly, frizzy hair, confused me, but I figured let people enjoy what they want).
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"Indian Harry" came about, iirc, because "Hari Puttar" is an actual Indian name pronounced like "Harry Potter". It actually works pretty well in-universe. The Potters are an ancient, wealthy family; they could theoretically be high-caste Indians who anglicized their name from "Puttar". Harry's green eyes are also often remarked upon, which could be interpreted as surprise at seeing his white mother's eye color with otherwise Indian features. People got autistic about it like fandom types always do, but the original theory isn't bad.
 
@FinnSven Yes OtterlyNoah is very autistic and weird, so naturally pre-teen novels traumatize him deeply. I looked into him and he's also a serial plagiarist. He got flayed on stream for it today. But yeah, guaranteed this guy chops his dick off and becomes troon before 2027.
 
Random Internet Person said:
JK Rowling may very well be one of the most controversial figures of the 21st century - and this has led to many people re-examining her writing, and seeing if Harry Potter was ever that well written of a book series to begin with.
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Alright. We get it Noah. The Unbreakable Boy bad. Zachary Levi sucks. Lilo and Stitch and Steins;Gate good autism rep. We've heard you the first billion times you've said all that.

Can we all agree that OtterlyNoah's content is painfully repetitive?
 
autogynephobia said:
"Indian Harry" came about, iirc, because "Hari Puttar" is an actual Indian name pronounced like "Harry Potter". It actually works pretty well in-universe. The Potters are an ancient, wealthy family; they could theoretically be high-caste Indians who anglicized their name from "Puttar". Harry's green eyes are also often remarked upon, which could be interpreted as surprise at seeing his white mother's eye color with otherwise Indian features. People got autistic about it like fandom types always do, but the original theory isn't bad.
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